“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”

“Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.”

“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”

“Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower. The devil only knows what to make of it! What to the mind is shameful is beauty and nothing else to the heart. Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?”

“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”